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Also I'm getting tired of people using Europeans as a whole all the time when it's one particular country. How are Bulgarians, Greeks, Estonians or Swedes to bl

Also I'm getting tired of people using Europeans as a whole all the time when it's one particular country. How are Bulgarians, Greeks, Estonians or Swedes to blame for anything there. It's amazing. No one is blaming Japanese, Vietnamese or Malaysians for the Mongol invasions in Europe. It's beyond ridiculous.

huytersd 2y ago
No one is blaming Eastern Europeans. Everyone knows they were not capable of carrying out colonization. They were the slaves used in the Arab world for a lot of antiquity.
- ffgjgf1 2y ago
  The middle ages, not sure there were many East European slaves in pre-Islamic Arabia. Also plenty of them were “imported” into the Byzantine empire and Italy. After the Vikings Venice and Genoa mostly controlled the slave trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and also the Balkans (Venice had a massive slave market).
- jeltz 2y ago
  Italians and Spaniards were sold as slaves in North Africa and were still perfectly able to colonize.
  - huytersd 2y ago
    Those were overwhelmingly women.
AlecSchueler 2y ago
They said "European colonizers." That doesn't signify every European nation, but only those with colonialist histories.